Students. You gotta love ‘em. Sometimes they write the darndest things (these students are mine, these aren’t).
And sometimes they say the darndest things. The context of this assignment is a presentation for a speech class. The assignment was for each group to present a newscast complete with visuals (via powerpoint), sports, news, [...]
Entries from February 2007
Student “Work.” Sometimes they say the darndest things.
February 20th, 2007 · 14 Comments
Tags: Humor · Learning · Teaching · Uncategorized
You’ve Won!
February 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine received a very exciting email informing him that he’d won a huge amount of money from some odd (but very official sounding) oversees organization. They didn’t ask for any personal information so my friend replied, thanked them, and let them know he couldn’t [...]
Tags: Humor · Money · Uncategorized · Writing
Why stupidity is a good thing
February 6th, 2007 · 18 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I read an amusing column by Joe Soucheray in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In it he wrote about how the educational system we’re pouring billions of dollars into is failing because it continues to crank out idiots who (among other things) don’t understand that you can actually die [...]